Improvement in shifting carriage or buggy-seats



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No. 104,248. Patented June 14. 1870'.

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Letters PatentNo. 104,248, dated June 14, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIITING CARRIAGE OR BUG-GrY-SEAI'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SYLVESTER W. BEACH, of

South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I

will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a wagonbody, with front and back movable seats;

Figure 2 is a bottom view of the front seat; and

Figure 3 is a vertical section of the mechanism for locking the back seat.

A represents the body of a vehicle, provided on the inside along the upper edges of its sides with bars, B, which are grooved on both the upper and under sides.

0 isthe back seat, provided at each end on the under side with two vertical bars a a, the lower ends of which are bent outward and upward, fitting into the grooves on the under sides of the bars B .B.

On the outside of the bars a a are placed other smaller bars, to form, with the former, bearings for friction-rollers b b, which move in the grooves on the upper sides of the side bars B B. The back seat 0 is thus supported upon the rollers b b, and can be moved back and forth to any point desiredon the side bars B B. It is held in position by the following means:

Under each endor side of the seat, between the rollers b b, is secured a hollow post, (1, within which a vertical pin or bolt, 0, pressed downward into a hole in the side piece B, by means of a spiral spring, j, as shown in fig. 3.

The pin or bolt e'isprovided with a lever or handle g, which projects through a slot on the outside of the hollow post (I, and by this means the bolt e may be raised out of the side piece B and moved where desired.

v A suitable distance from the front end within the ,body are pivoted two arms, D D, one on each side, said armsbeing, by means of doublehinges, h 71,

connected with the front seat E, which thus can be thrown either backward into the body A, or forward,

resting on the front end of the body, forming a con venient seat for children.

On the under side of the seat E is pivoteda lever, G, to which lever two rods, H H, are pivoted, one on each side of the pivot point of said lever, to the seat, said rods passing out through the ends of the seat, as shown in fig. 2.

By turning the lever G in one direction, the rods H H are drawn inward, but, by turning it in the opposite direction, the rods will project from the sides of the seat, that it may be supported in hooks, It, at the front ends of the side bars B B, the seat obtaining then the position shown in fig. 1.

At each end or side of the seat E is hinged a semi-' circular iron, on, in such a manner thatit can be turned inward down upon the seat, said irons being also, in their center, provided with a socket, i, in which is inserted the front end of the side rail a.

This side rail is hinged to the back I in such a manner'that it can be turned'inward.

To the back rail I are also secured two back bars, 1), the lower ends of which are inserted in holes in the ends of bars 1' 1', secured on top of the seat E.

The bars or rods 1) p are jointed near their lower ends, so that the whole back canbe turned forward on top of the seat, the side rails n a being first removed out of their sockets t 'i. The back thus formed is reversible, as the cross-bars r 4' have a hole or socket at .each end for the insertion of the rods 1; 1).

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The arrangement, under the back seat of a vehicle, of the bent bars a a, friction-rollers b b, hollow posts dd, and spring bolts 0 c, with levers g g, all 01)- -ating in combination with the grooved side bars B B,

substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The semicircular side irons m m, hinged, as described, to the seat E, and provided with sockets 'i 'i, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth. 3. The back I, provided with jointed rods 1) p and hinged side rails a n, and used in combination with the side irons m m and cross-bars r 'r, on either side of the seat E,.substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SYLVESTER W. BEACH.

\Vitnesses:

J OSEEH B. Armour), Jr., BENJ, WALL. 

